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Deputy Prime Minister of Canada

Cabinet position in the Canadian government

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The deputy prime minister of Canada is a position in the Canadian Cabinet which is conferred from time to time by the prime minister of Canada to a senior cabinet member. That title does not have any formal standing in law or formal duties. It is not a ministerial office, in that there is no associated departmental portfolio, since it is almost always conferred on an individual who already holds a position as Cabinet minister. As a cabinet minister, deputy prime ministers are appointed to the Privy Council and styled as the Honourable, a privilege maintained for life.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Deputy Prime Minister of Canada” as cabinet position in the Canadian government. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Deputy, Prime and Minister.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current 98-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Deputy, Prime and Minister providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Deputy Prime Minister of Canada”, the useful work is to connect “cabinet position in the Canadian government” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deputy Prime Minister of Canada” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.